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Continuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic by the great the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by introduction from one of Australia's foremost writing critics and Coetzee experts.

Introduction by Melinda Harvey

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished Australian author in her mid-sixties celebrated for a novel she wrote decades earlier. In a series of eight 'lessons'-the transcripts of lectures and speeches-she examines such subjects as animal rights, evil and the afterlife. Published in 2003, Elizabeth Costello was the first book J. M. Coetzee published in his new home of Australia. With its blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction, its rigorous interrogation of weighty ideas and moments of bleak comedy, the novel issued a new and complex challenge to Coetzee's readers.

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